A village in Dorset, England.
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hooke
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hooke.
Editorial note
The Baroque Cycle for a semi-fictional view of the beginnings of science - the Newton and Hooke era.
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Quick take
A village in Dorset, England.
Meaning at a glance
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A surname from Middle English derived from hook, as an occupational or topographical name or a nickname.
Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703), an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. His best remembered contribution was the discovery of the biological cell.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for hooke.
noun
A village in Dorset, England.
noun
A surname from Middle English derived from hook, as an occupational or topographical name or a nickname.
noun
Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703), an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. His best remembered contribution was the discovery of the biological cell.
Example sentences
The Baroque Cycle for a semi-fictional view of the beginnings of science - the Newton and Hooke era.
We barely know what Hooke looks like because Isaac destroyed every image of him after his death.
Edison specialised in taking credit for others innovations, Newton had Hooke forgotten, and on it goes.
The guy at Sandy Hooke used someone else's legally obtained gun.
There was one (not many) portrait of Hooke at the Royal Academy of Science which at some point was destroyed while Issac Newton was President.
The Wikipedia articles on the topic lists published references as early as 1991 and notes that the general idea itself dates to 1660 when Robert Hooke of Hooke's law fame published an anagram in a newspaper to timestamp his discovery.
There has always been pressure to publish--going back even to Newton's battles with Hooke over gravity, or Darwin's rush to publish On the Origin of Species before Wallace.
How about Robert Hooke drinking mercury.
'Hookes Law' of springs should be another of Newton's laws, but Hooke had actually written down that spring law with no proof and no motivation, but nevertheless published first.
Around 200 BC, Eratosthenes [1] (a regular young Greek poet) calculated the circumference of the Earth just by measuring shadow lengths at high noon, and his guess was pretty much spot on (plus he figured out how far the Moon and the Sun are from the Earth, also very accurately), whereas Robert Hooke complained that too many people believed in a flat Earth in the 1600's [2].
Quote examples
What where the chances?" At this point in the novel, only Daniel has a clear view on Newton's genius, Hooke was renowned and Leibniz was not into mathematics (he studied to lawyer first, then turned into mathematics according to the novel, but knowing Stephenson I think it's true).
Proper noun examples
It's like when we use Hooke's law to describe a spring constant that only holds true for part of the range.
Hooke owned a number of books on cryptography, a topic in which he had a special interest.
But God brought him on earth the same era with individuals like Hooke, Leibniz and Newton.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use hooke in a sentence?
The Baroque Cycle for a semi-fictional view of the beginnings of science - the Newton and Hooke era.
What does hooke mean?
A village in Dorset, England.
What part of speech is hooke?
hooke is commonly used as noun.